Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). The Beautiful and Damned, p.639, The Floating Press
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